Spreading COVID at Fanfest

[Koros]

This is a wholesome comic about someone getting sick at Fanfest and accidentally spreading COVID. The community reception has been very positive and I love this cute comic >w< ~

https://nitter.net/Fenrir74/status/1687861130562273281

[Stormpeaks]

ngl that was a very good read, loved it

10/10

[VelKallor]

Like this comes as a surprise to anyone? Covid will be endemic forever. Like any virus, it cant be cured, cant be prevented. it will always be present in large gatherings regardless of where or when.

Thats what endemic means.

Im sorry he got sick but...its a part of life now like every other virus of its kind.

[Koros]

Like this comes as a surprise to anyone? Covid will be endemic forever. Like any virus, it cant be cured, cant be prevented. it will always be present in large gatherings regardless of where or when.

Thats what endemic means.

Im sorry he got sick but...its a part of life now like every other virus of its kind.

yeah but what do you feel about him spreading covid at fanfest

[VelKallor]

yeah but what do you feel about him spreading covid at fanfest

Again, short of hiding in your home for the next 100 years, it cant be helped. His symptoms could just have easily have been from the flu or a dozen other possible illnesses. Fever, chills are symptoms of at least what..twenty separate diseases. More. Short of testing yourself DAILY, you cant know what you have. For all he knew he could have been infected from an asymptomatic carrier who contracted it from a third party unknown.

Or from the air recirculatory system. Ever hear of Legonnaires disease? I also VERY MUCH doubt he was the only case that day.

Ill say this again for emphasis and it is medical FACT.

You can have an infectious disease and not have a single sniffle or other symptom. You have no way of knowing. None. You can infect others and not even know you did. I do feel sorry for him, the timing was rotten but again, this, amongst a host of other infectious bacterial and viral diseases is a fact of life we will all have to learn to adapt to.

So no, he didnt spread it to anyone. He contracted it from someone else. The guy must feel horrible. I would.

We will see cases of Covid for the next 100 years.

There is no drug, no therapy, no medication of any kind that can stop or halt viral infection. It can be treated, the symptoms and signs can be ameliorated to allow for day to day life, but it cant be stopped.

You can have flu, take medications to ease the runny nose, to help you breathe, slow down or stop you coughing..but you still have the flu. It cant be cured.

Not yet at any rate.

How long before we do? Ask your great grandchildren.

It wont be soon.

[EZGIL]

[VelKallor]

EZGIL: That was then. These days pestis pestis, yersinia pestis are treatable and curable with antibiotics, aminoglycosides to be specific. But medical research, when it comes to virii...we re still a long way off.

[Rolder50]

His symptoms could just have easily have been from the flu or a dozen other possible illnesses. Fever, chills are symptoms of at least what..twenty separate diseases. More. Short of testing yourself DAILY, you cant know what you have. For all he knew he could have been infected from an asymptomatic carrier who contracted it from a third party unknown.

Even then, going to a convention with a cold or flu or any other transmittable disease is a bit... rude, to put it in words that won't get me banned off the forums.

[VelKallor]

Even then, going to a convention with a cold or flu or any other transmittable disease is a bit... rude, to put it in words that won't get me banned off the forums.

Rolder, see my earlier point. You can have it and not even KNOW you do. So you get a slightly stuffed nose or a headache. People brush that off and keep going. Ill put it another way. Rolder, you could personally have caught covid and not even felt a single symptom.

How do you not infect someone when you dont even know you are sick?

Again, he could just have easily gotten it from the air recirc system. We will never know.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2109229118

The percentage of cases that were truly asymptomatic among laboratory-confirmed cases was 35.1%

I dont see how this surprises anyone.

[VelKallor]

Incidentally, forget conventions. They arent the biggest venue for contracting a respiratory disease. Want to know what is?

THE OFFICE. Your workplace.

Offices are Petri dishes with a vengeance.

I used to get sick all the damned time when I was working. Imagine my reaction when i retired and suddenly found I was NOT getting colds and flu every few weeks. Matter of fact I havent had a bad case of flu in YEARS. Offices, enclosed spaces with air con to recirculate the air are an excellent vector.

Think of that the next time one idiot manager tells a staffer to come to work sick.